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How to Connect ActiveCampaign to Microsoft Copilot — via MCP

Drive ActiveCampaign (marketing automation + CRM) from any AI agent: contacts, lists, tags, deals, pipelines, campaigns, automations. 16 tools. Custom Api-Token header auth, per-account API URL.

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ActiveCampaign

Drive ActiveCampaign (marketing automation + CRM) from any AI agent: contacts, lists, tags, deals, pipelines, campaigns, automations. 16 tools. Custom Api-Token header auth, per-account API URL.

tools

16

Region

INTL

Category

Marketing Automation

Authentication

API Key

Required env vars

ACTIVECAMPAIGN_API_URLACTIVECAMPAIGN_API_KEY
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Drive ActiveCampaign (marketing automation + CRM) from any AI agent: contacts, lists, tags, deals, pipelines, campaigns, automations. 16 tools. Custom Api-Token header auth, per-account API URL.

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ActiveCampaign + Microsoft Copilot

Drive ActiveCampaign (marketing automation + CRM) from any AI agent: contacts, lists, tags, deals, pipelines, campaigns, automations. 16 tools. Custom Api-Token header auth, per-account API URL.

Prerequisites

See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:

ACTIVECAMPAIGN_API_URL, ACTIVECAMPAIGN_API_KEY

Step 1 — Get credentials

Setup:

  1. Sign in to ActiveCampaign → Settings → Developer. Two values:
    • URL (your account's API URL): https://{ACCOUNT}.api-us1.com (or .api-eu1.com, etc.)
    • Key: a long alphanumeric API key.
  2. Set ACTIVECAMPAIGN_API_URL = the full URL from step 1 (no trailing slash, no /api/3).
  3. Set ACTIVECAMPAIGN_API_KEY = the key.

Authentication: custom header Api-Token: ${ACTIVECAMPAIGN_API_KEY}.

Account-scoped base URL: every account has its own subdomain. The adapter substitutes {{ACTIVECAMPAIGN_API_URL}}/api/3 as the base. If you use OAuth2 instead of the API key, the URL is the same.

…(continued in the in-app connector instructions)

Step 2 — Install the adapter

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d

Step 3 — Add the connector in Microsoft Copilot

Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide shows YOUR_SERVER_ID.

Microsoft Copilot uses MCP servers through agents built in Copilot Studio: you add AnythingMCP to an agent as a tool, then publish the agent to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams. Copilot Studio connects from Microsoft's cloud over Streamable HTTP, which AnythingMCP supports.

  1. In Copilot Studio, open your agent (or create one), go to Tools and choose Add a tool → New tool → Model Context Protocol.
  2. Enter a Server name (for example AnythingMCP), a Server description that says what the connector does, and the Server URL https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID. Copilot Studio uses the description to decide when to call the server.
  3. Under authentication, choose API key, set Type to Header and the header name to X-API-Key, then select Create.
  4. In Add tool, choose Create a new connection, paste an MCP API key from AnythingMCP (MCP Servers → your server → API keys) and select Add to agent.
  5. Try it in the agent's Test pane: ask for something that needs the ActiveCampaign tools.
  6. Select Publish, then Channels → Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams, keep Make agent available in Microsoft Copilot selected and choose Add channel. See agent in Teams installs it for you; in Microsoft 365 Copilot, type @ and pick the agent.

Prefer per-user sign-in? Choose OAuth 2.0 → Dynamic discovery instead of an API key: each user then signs in to AnythingMCP the first time the agent calls it.

Self-hosting? Use your instance's public HTTPS address instead of https://cloud.anythingmcp.com. Copilot Studio connects from Microsoft's cloud, so localhost does not work.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
activecampaign_list_contactsList contacts with optional filters
activecampaign_get_contactFetch a contact by ID with relationships (contactLists, contactTags, fieldValues, etc
activecampaign_sync_contactUpsert a contact by email (creates if missing, updates if exists)
activecampaign_update_contactUpdate an existing contact by ID
activecampaign_delete_contactPermanently delete a contact (GDPR right-to-be-forgotten)
activecampaign_subscribe_contact_to_listAdd a contact to a list with the given status
activecampaign_list_listsList all subscriber lists
activecampaign_list_tagsList tags
activecampaign_add_tag_to_contactAttach a tag to a contact (creates a contactTag join)
activecampaign_remove_tag_from_contactRemove a tag→contact join (NOT delete the tag itself)
activecampaign_list_dealsList CRM deals with optional filters
activecampaign_create_dealCreate a CRM deal
activecampaign_update_dealUpdate a deal — common: change stage_id (move pipeline), set status=1 (won) or 2 (lost), update value
activecampaign_list_pipelinesList deal pipelines (each pipeline has multiple stages)
activecampaign_list_pipeline_stagesList stages, optionally filtered to a pipeline
activecampaign_list_custom_fieldsList custom fields defined on contacts

FAQ

Which Copilot is this for? Microsoft 365 Copilot at work, through agents built in Copilot Studio. The Microsoft Copilot app for personal accounts has no option to add your own MCP server.

What do I need? A work account with access to Copilot Studio (a license or a trial) to build the agent. People who use it in Microsoft 365 Copilot or Teams need access to the agent: share it with them, or ask an admin to publish it to the organization. If your organization applies data policies to Power Platform connectors, they cover MCP servers too.

The agent doesn't call the tools. Check that the header name is exactly X-API-Key and that the key belongs to the same MCP server as the URL, and make the server description specific: Copilot Studio uses it to decide when to call the server. Publish the agent again after each change; in an open chat, type "start over" to get the new version.

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